There is not much to be added on this subject to what has already been said in treating of dogs for show, page 385.

In an ordinary way, when nothing special is required of the dogs, it is a great consideration to keep them cheaply, but low priced food is not often the cheapest. One point in economy is regularity in feeding. Let certain hours be fixed and adhered to.

It is needless to go through a list of foods There are more dogs now fed on meat biscuits than any other food; but there are dog biscuits and dog biscuits; some are rubbish, but there are several makers of excellent ones.

I find many dogs prefer the biscuits dry, but as change is necessary I generally give them broken up once a day, soaked with broth and mixed with boiled cabbage or other green vegetables and any scraps to be used up; oatmeal, rice, barley meal, are good for a change; Indian corn meal is too heating, and also too fattening.

It is a mistake to attempt to gauge dogs' appetites and allow them just so much; let each one eat as much as he will, but never allow food to stand over from meal to meal.

Green vegetables of various kinds, and roots such as carrots, turnips, but in small quantities, are wholesome to give at times, and the tops of young nettles chopped and boiled in the broth are excellent for a change and are anti-scorbutic in their effects on the system.

Thorough cleanliness in regard to the feeding dishes is an absolute necessity of health in the kennel.

Pure water should always be accessible to dogs, and it should be so placed that they cannot soil it. As boxes, such as two or four champagne boxes nailed together bottom upwards, should be kept in the yard of the kennel, the water may be kept in vessels hung up against the wall or railings, so that the dog has to mount the box to get at it. This will insure its being kept clean.

"Exercise. - This I have also noticed in Chapter XXIX (The Irish Water Spaniel). All dogs should be regularly exercised; it is cruel to keep a dog on the chain or confined to house or kennel without relief or change; and the dog being naturally an active animal, when his exercise is prevented illness almost surely follows.

People who keep dogs, if obliged to keep them confined for the most part, should arrange for them to have at least one hour's exercise a day. Taking a pet dog out for a carriage airing is not a substitute.

It is not always easy for men in towns to give the dogs they have in preparation for shows, etc, sufficient exercise. "When the development of hard muscle is necessary, men living in the country possess great advantages in this respect.

When in America, as judge of the International Show, in New York, May, 1880, I came across a dog exerciser of an ingenious character, which was new to me, and, as it probably will also be to most readers, I give an engraving and description of it here.

I found it in use to train bull terriers for fighting, in which brutal and brutalising contests both wind and muscle are required to be developed to the uttermost; but I see no reason why it should not be used for that purpose here, where happily dog fighting no longer exists or is recognised as a sport, unless by a few who may, at rare intervals, surreptitiously indulge in their savage and depraved tastes.

For training whippets, terriers, etc, for racing and rabbit coursing, as well as dogs gradually wanted to be got into hard condition, it will prove very useful, and a short "turn on the mill" daily would, I think, strengthen young ones inclined to be weak in the legs, and it would certainly tend to prevent wide-spreading, flat, soft feet.